Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein explained why he skipped Monday's ceremony at the Vatican Palace with his Chilean counterpart Alberto van Klaveren and Pope Francis to commemorate the ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

the rebuilding of the papal fortress of Castel Sant’Angelo and the creation of the Vatican palace. Pope Alexander VI established in 1500 many of the customs for Jubilee years, deciding ...

Pope Francis leaves after addressING the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St Peter’s square during his Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican on January 12, 2025.

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis had ... was visible in photos taken on the morning of Jan. 16 in the apostolic palace during his scheduled audiences. The 88-year-old pope was also ...

The allegorical mural—completed in the early 1900s and measuring twenty-seven by twelve feet—was inspired by Raphael’s Disputa (Disputation of the Holy Sacrament) in the Vatican Palace. These two ...

A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in the spring for jubilee pilgrims who wish to escape the crowds in Rome for a day and immerse ...

reads the pope's prepared text to ambassadors and diplomats accredited to the Holy See during their annual meeting in the Hall of Blessing in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome in a test ...